Equality Trust
# Equality Trust

The Equality Trust is a UK registered charity that campaigns against economic and social inequality. Founded as a campaigning organisation in 2009 by Bill Kerry, Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett after the publication of Wilkinson and Pickett's book The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, it became a registered charity in 2015.

The Trust's Co-Executive Directors are Jo Wittams and Priya Sahni-Nicholas.

## Work

The Equality Trust argues that there is a strong association between low economic growth and inequality.

The Trust campaigns for governments to take action on inequality, starting in the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections.

The Trust was cited by Caroline Lucas as demonstrating "a clear and demonstrable correlation between drug misuse and inequality" and that drug abuse is more common in more unequal countries such as the UK in her campaign for review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Wilkinson and Pickett published a second book, The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everybody's Wellbeing in 2018.

### Billionaire Britain

The Trust's research on the rapid growth of billionaire wealth in the UK argued that wealth accumulation by the richest was harming the UK's society and economic stability. Their call for wealth taxes to tackle widening wealth inequality was echoed by other organisations.

